LibGuides: Science, Technology, & Society (STS): STS Databases

Places to Start

America: History and Life
Key resource covers US & Canadian history, prehistory-present. Indexes articles, book reviews, essay collections, dissertations, media. With abstracts.
Anthropology Plus
Indexes articles, reports, edited works, and other publications in Anthropology and related fields.
Historical Abstracts
Resource covers world history (excluding US & Canada), 1450-present. Indexes articles, books, essay collections, dissertations, media. With abstracts.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, reviews, dissertations.

Primary Sources

Agricola
Comprehensive source of U.S. agricultural and life sciences information and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, agricultural engineering and technology, and earth and environmental sciences.
1970-present
Air & Space Magazine Archive
v.1:no.1 (1986:Apr.) - v.25:no.6 (2010:Dec./2011:Jan.)
Applied Science & Technology Source
Search journals, trade magazines, conference proceedings, and more specialized publications. Includes some full-text journals.
Indexing goes back to 1913; includes the Industrial Arts Index, 1913-57.
Complete Work of Charles Darwin
Complete publications; 20,000 private papers; bibliography and manuscript catalog; plus specimens, biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works.
Digital National Security Archive
The Digital National Security Archive is a collection of primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945. More than 35,000 declassified documents - totalling more than 200,000 pages - have been gathered through use of the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). 1945 - present.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Coverage: 1470 - 1700
Page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere. Texts may also be searched on the University of Michigan Digital Collections site.
Food Studies Online
Coverage: 1706 - 2016
Primary sources covering the topic of food from social, historical, economic, cultural, religious, and political perspectives. Includes archival content, advertisements and other visual ephemera, text, and video.

Nature Archive (1869-1949)
New England Journal of Medicine Archive (1812-1989)
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
An index to the science content in several 19th-century British general periodicals.
Scientific American Archive, 1845-present
Substance Abuse in America: A Documentary and Reference Guide
Includes primary source material documenting drug use and drug policy, such as magazine articles, ads, and legislation. Documents are accompanied by analysis that provide background and context.

Smithsonian Collections Online. Trade Literature and the Merchandising of Industry
Coverage: 1820 - 1926
Catalogs, pamphlets, advertising materials, and ephemera on essential industries that emerged in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Smithsonian Collections Online: Evolution of Flight, 1784-1991
Coverage: 1784 - 1991
Primary sources documenting the history of flight. Includes images, diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, and government documents held by the National Air and Space Museum Archives, National Air and Space Museum Library, Smithsonian Archives, and Smithsonian Libraries.
Smithsonian Collections Online: World's Fairs and Expositions
Coverage: 1840 - 1923
Includes primary source documents covering landmark exhibits.
Past Masters
Full-text collections of philosophical and historical scientific books.

Secondary Sources

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, reviews, dissertations.
JSTOR
A full-text scholarly journal archive, back to vol. 1, issue 1, in many fields. Current years are excluded for most journals.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (Full Text)
Indexing and abstracting of dissertations and theses 1861-present. Full text for most dissertations 1997-present and selective full-text for earlier dissertations. Comprehensive coverage of North American universities and selective coverage worldwide.
Sociological Abstracts
The standard bibliographic tool for sociology and related disciplines. Provides abstracts and indexing of journal articles, citations to book reviews, abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. 1952 - present.
Web of Science [ISI Web of Knowledge]
Indexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, art & humanities research journals, 1899-present. Also includes books and book chapters (2005-present) and conference proceedings (1990-present).
WorldCat
Find over 43 million records of any type of material (books, journals, etc.) held by libraries all over the US and the world. "Classic" interface allows for more advanced searching options than the "MIT's Worldcat" interface.

Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Coverage: 1907 - 1984
Indexes journals in the humanities and social sciences.
America: History and Life
Key resource covering US & Canadian history, prehistory-present. Indexes articles, book reviews, essay collections, dissertations, media. With abstracts. Maximum simultaneous users: 6.
Anthropology Plus
Indexes articles, reports, edited works, and other publications in Anthropology and related fields.Combines the Anthropological Literature database (from Harvard University) and Anthropological Index (from the UK's Royal Anthropological Institute).
AnthroSource
Contains full text of the publications of the American Anthropological Association. Includes current issues of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications, such as American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
Historical Abstracts
Coverage: 1450 - present
Resource covers world history (excluding US & Canada). Indexes articles, books, essay collections, dissertations, media. With abstracts.

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

African Americans in Science: an Encyclopedia of People and Progress
America Goes Green: An Encyclopedia of Eco-Friendly Culture in the United States
3 v., 2013
Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease
A history and description of the world's major diseases of yesterday and today. 2003
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures
2 v., 2nd ed., 2008.
Encyclopedia of Bioethics
5v, 3rd ed., 2004.
Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
2 v., 2009.
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
4 v., 2003
Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics
4v, 2005
Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture
3v, 2009
Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming
2 v., 2012
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
This revision of a classic reference work covers topics in social science research and practice. 2nd ed., 9v, 2008.
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy
3v, 2001
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
6v, 2005
Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
2003.
Science and Its Times
8v, 2001
Science, Religion, and Society
2 v., 2007
Scientific Exploration and Expeditions: From the Age of Discovery to the Twenty-First Century
2v, 2010
Substance Abuse in America: A Documentary and Reference Guide
2012

Biography

African Americans in Science: an Encyclopedia of People and Progress
Covers the accomplishments and struggles of African American scientists. Includes entries on people, scientific fields, and institutions, as well as a chronology.
American Men and Women of Science: : A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences
Editions 22 (2005)-present.
American Women of Science Since 1900
Covers American women scientists across the sciences throughout the 20th century.
Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs provide the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members.
Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society
Obituaries of nearly every deceased Fellow and Foreign Member of the Royal Society. 1955-present.
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Lengthy biographical essays about deceased natural scientists and mathematicians from all countries and historical periods.
Vol. 1-16 are the original DSB (published 1970-80). Vol. 17-18 are supplements (1990). Vol. 19-27 are the New DSB (2007), including 575 new articles and 250 supplementary or replacement articles about figures covered in the original DSB.
Dictionary of Medical Biography
This A-Z listing of medical practitioners from ancient through modern times--also indexed by country, field of activity, and birth and death dates--provides a biography of each, their contributions to the field of medicine, and a bibliography of their works. 5 v., 2007.

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